As the impact of bullets wounding 10 people on a popular block of Bourbon Street early Sunday continues to reverberate throughout New Orleans, city lawmakers expressed either measured outrage or said nothing at all Monday.

City Council members Jared Brossett, Jason Williams and Nadine Ramsey considered the shootings a clarion call to turn a more critical eye toward management of the New Orleans Police Department. Ramsey has demanded an audit of the 8th District's on-duty roster that night to determine how many cops were working near the 700 block of Bourbon when shots were fired at 2:45 a.m.

"Chief Serpas needs to answer that," said Ramsey, whose district includes the French Quarter. Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said Sunday that 25 officers were in the vicinity.

"I'm not clear what the number is," Ramsey said. "The audit will tell us how many officers are assigned to the 8th District and how many were out in the field on that day."

The shooter, who hit tourists and critically injured at least two people, reinforced New Orleans' reputation as a city marred by violence. That it took place on the French Quarter's most internationally famous thoroughfare brought that unwanted distinction into even sharper relief.

Williams called on the NOPD to start accounting for shootings as a category of a crime.

"Shootings can be classified as murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, second degree battery, illegal discharge of a firearm, along with other crimes," Williams said. "Yet, any shooting can lead to a fatality. The Police Department needs to track the number of shootings in New Orleans to get an accurate measure of its successes and failures."

New Orleans saw a 20-percent drop in murders in 2013, accompanied by a 15-percent drop in the number of people wounded by gunshots that year, according to New Orleans Police Department records of non-fatal shootings. But the police do not list all incidents when a gun is fired, even accidentally.

Williams also called for the NOPD to disclose how many officers it has patrolling each area of the city to give the public a better understanding of where the department is understaffed.

Council members LaToya Cantrell and Susan Guidry said through their staff Monday that they were unavailable for comment. Councilwoman Stacy Head did not respond to inquiries about the shootings. Along with Williams and Ramsey, Cantrell, Head and Guidry make up the council's Criminal Justice Committee.

Brossett said he wants to push for higher pay for cops to attract more qualified candidates to a department that can't fill its vacancies. He also said he plans to seek state and federal grants to help pay for better policing.

Ramsey said she wants to revisit the New Orleans Police Department's approach to managing its officers' off-duty detail assignments, a policy that a city police union lambasted shortly after the shooting as preventing more cops from working for the bars and clubs along that busy entertainment strip.

Councilman James Gray sought to turn focus toward the deeper social problems that can lead to gun play in New Orleans.

"The men who shot these people should be caught and punished, but our solution to the problem involves saving the kids who can still be reached. We have to give these young men a reason to live," he said. "There are no easy answers: Our parents need to step up. We have to address the systemic problems: a culture that glorifies violence, easy access to guns."